CS #328. The Missing Juror (1944)

CS #328. The Missing Juror (1944)

is an American film noir mystery directed by Budd Boetticher (credited as Oscar Boetticher Jr.). The film follows investigative reporter Joe Keats (Jim Bannon) as he tracks a phantom killer targeting jurors from a high-profile murder trial.
Core Plot
The story begins after Harry Wharton (George Macready) is wrongly convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to death. Although new evidence found by reporter Joe Keats leads to a last-minute pardon, the psychological trauma of his time on death row leaves Wharton insane, and he supposedly dies by suicide in a mental asylum fire.